Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
San Angelo Standard-Times | ||||||||||
San Angelo, Texas | ||||||||||
Owner: Scripps (Ohio) | ||||||||||
From a report for the Knight Foundation | ||||||||||
by Bill Dedman and Stephen K. Doig, June 2005 | ||||||||||
Click here to read the national report or to select another newspaper | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff |
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2005 | 25.0 | |||||||||
2004 | 18.2 | |||||||||
2003 | 16.7 | |||||||||
2002 | 12.9 | |||||||||
2001 | 20.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 12.1 | |||||||||
1999 | 13.3 | |||||||||
1998 | 11.8 | |||||||||
1997 | 8.3 | |||||||||
1996 | 8.3 | |||||||||
1995 | 9.4 | |||||||||
1994 | 9.1 | |||||||||
1993 | 9.1 | |||||||||
1992 | 10.3 | |||||||||
1991 | 6.1 | |||||||||
1990 | 5.6 | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2005 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for San Angelo Standard-Times | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 25.0 | 37.4 | 67 | |||||||
2004 | 18.2 | 37.4 | 49 | |||||||
How the index is calculated | ||||||||||
The Newsroom Diversity Index is the non-white percentage of the newsroom staff | ||||||||||
divided by the non-white percentage of residents in the circulation area. | ||||||||||
(Parity = 100.) | ||||||||||
Company index | ||||||||||
This newspaper's owner, Scripps (Ohio), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 56. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for San Angelo Standard-Times | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 67. | This paper | |||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
Compare that with 44, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 25,001 to 50,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 38 out of 140 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the category of 25,001 to 50,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
An example of a newspaper of similar circulation, in an area of similar level of non-white residents, but one that has a relatively high Diversity Index, is Tucson Citizen, Arizona, with a 31.3 percent non-white staff in a community that is 44.7 percent non-white. Its index is 70. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 26,271 ranks 388 out of 1,410 daily newspapers in the US. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Details on race/ethnicity | ||||||||||
in the circulation area | ||||||||||
and the home county | ||||||||||
of San Angelo Standard-Times | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 32.6 | 53,384 | ||||||||
Black | 2.9 | 4,820 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6 | 1,032 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.4 | 572 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 132 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.8 | 1,376 | ||||||||
Non-white | 37.4 | 61,316 | ||||||||
White | 62.6 | 102,662 | ||||||||
Total | 163,978 | |||||||||
Home county: Tom Green | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 30.7 | 31,946 | ||||||||
Black | 4.0 | 4,122 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.9 | 908 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.4 | 380 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 88 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.0 | 1,058 | ||||||||
Non-white | 37.0 | 38,502 | ||||||||
White | 63.0 | 65,508 | ||||||||
Total | 104,010 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Tom Green. | ||||||||||
About this report | ||||||||||
This third annual report for the Knight Foundation adds context to an annual survey by the American Society of Newspaper Editors. ASNE has set a goal that | ||||||||||
every newspaper, to help it know its community and gather the news, should employ at least one non-white journalist, and that newspapers should strive to | ||||||||||
employ non-whites in proportion to their share of the community. ASNE's report, at www.asne.org, shows each newspaper's non-white employment, but does | ||||||||||
not disclose how closely that employment mirrors the newspaper's circulation area. | ||||||||||
That gap is filled by the report you are reading now. This report was not done by ASNE, but was done for the Knight Foundation by Bill Dedman and | ||||||||||
Stephen K. Doig. It shows how close each newspaper is to ASNE's goal, by comparing the newsroom staffing with the circulation area population. | ||||||||||
The full report is at www.powerreporting.com/knight. | ||||||||||
Notes and definitions | ||||||||||
1. The Newsroom Diversity Index is the non-white percentage of the newsroom staff divided by the non-white percentage of the circulation area's residents. Parity = 100. | ||||||||||
2. Source for staffing: Survey by American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 2005. Newspapers report non-white staff as of the end of the previous year. | ||||||||||
3. Following ASNE's definition, newsroom staff includes only supervisors, reporters, editors, copy/layout editors and photographers. | ||||||||||
4. Also following ASNE's definition, "whites," "blacks," etc., exclude Hispanics, who are counted in a separate category. | ||||||||||
5. Source for boundaries of this newspaper's circulation area: ZIP Code circulation data, Audit Bureau of Circulations, latest available. | ||||||||||
6. A paper may define its circulation area differently for marketing efforts, or news coverage, or to set advertising rates. | ||||||||||
7. If ZIP Codes or counties are used, this report applies a threshold: 10 percent household penetration is required to include an area in the circulation area. | ||||||||||
8. Source for the demographics of residents of that circulation area: US Census 2000. | ||||||||||
9. Source for total circulation: Editor & Publisher magazine, Monday-Friday average at year-end 2004. | ||||||||||
10. Staff of non-English publications, such as the Miami Herald's El Nuevo Herald, are excluded from the ASNE staffing survey for the first time this year. | ||||||||||
Demographics of ZIP Codes | ||||||||||
where sales were reported by | ||||||||||
San Angelo Standard-Times | ||||||||||
Note that some ZIP Codes listed here may not have been included in determining the newspaper's circulation area. In calculating the Diversity Index, a | ||||||||||
ZIP Code was included only if the household penetration was at least 10 percent. Any lower-penetration ZIP Codes are also listed here for your information. | ||||||||||
Also, if the newspaper reported more than 300 ZIP Codes, only the top 300 in weekday sales are listed here. | ||||||||||
ZIP / City / State / Approx. distance in miles from the newspaper's home office | Weekday sales | Households | Penetration % (daily sales per 100 households) | Median household income | Non-white % of population |
Hispanic % of population |
Black % of population |
Native % of population |
Asian % of population |
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76903 / San Angelo / TX / 0 mi. | 6,527 | 12,128 | 53.8 | $25,152 | 57.0 | 49.4 | 5.5 | 0.4 | 0.7 | |
76904 / San Angelo / TX / 8.9 mi. | 6,484 | 12,248 | 52.9 | $40,272 | 19.8 | 13.8 | 3.3 | 0.3 | 1.3 | |
76901 / San Angelo / TX / 9.1 mi. | 4,480 | 10,079 | 44.4 | $35,301 | 31.6 | 26.5 | 3.1 | 0.4 | 0.6 | |
76905 / San Angelo / TX / 8.3 mi. | 1,626 | 3,774 | 43.1 | $37,226 | 40.3 | 33.7 | 3.8 | 0.3 | 1.2 | |
76821 / Ballinger / TX / 37.7 mi. | 648 | 2,062 | 31.4 | $26,936 | 32.3 | 28.9 | 1.7 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
76950 / Sonora / TX / 67.7 mi. | 564 | 1,508 | 37.4 | $34,960 | 52.6 | 51.7 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
76943 / Ozona / TX / 77.1 mi. | 533 | 1,436 | 37.1 | $29,931 | 57.8 | 56.1 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.3 | |
76825 / Brady / TX / 71.2 mi. | 513 | 2,747 | 18.7 | $25,347 | 31.9 | 29.3 | 1.8 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
76932 / Big Lake / TX / 64.1 mi. | 376 | 1,065 | 35.3 | $33,514 | 53.5 | 49.3 | 2.9 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
76936 / Eldorado / TX / 40.3 mi. | 360 | 1,086 | 33.1 | $29,512 | 46.6 | 44.5 | 1.1 | 0.0 | 0.2 | |
76945 / Robert Lee / TX / 29.7 mi. | 307 | 804 | 38.2 | $28,750 | 18.6 | 16.8 | 0.2 | 0.9 | 0.1 | |
76849 / Junction / TX / 89.7 mi. | 294 | 1,601 | 18.4 | $29,813 | 23.8 | 22.4 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
76859 / Menard / TX / 54.2 mi. | 269 | 959 | 28.1 | $23,065 | 34.4 | 32.5 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.4 | |
76856 / Mason / TX / 88.9 mi. | 243 | 1,483 | 16.4 | $31,996 | 22.1 | 21.0 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.0 | |
76877 / San Saba / TX / 100.9 mi. | 236 | 1,617 | 14.6 | $29,634 | 29.8 | 25.3 | 3.4 | 0.4 | 0.1 | |
76941 / Mertzon / TX / 32.4 mi. | 232 | 607 | 38.2 | $38,083 | 27.5 | 26.6 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.0 | |
76861 / Miles / TX / 21.3 mi. | 221 | 681 | 32.5 | $35,948 | 30.1 | 29.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
79830 / Alpine / TX / 217.6 mi. | 220 | 2,921 | 7.5 | $25,752 | 48.8 | 45.4 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 0.4 | |
76837 / Eden / TX / 38.6 mi. | 209 | 594 | 35.2 | $29,943 | 50.5 | 48.5 | 1.4 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
76933 / Bronte / TX / 29.5 mi. | 209 | 550 | 38.0 | $28,208 | 25.6 | 20.2 | 4.5 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
79735 / Fort Stockton / TX / 150 mi. | 205 | 4,234 | 4.8 | $27,352 | 70.9 | 64.8 | 4.7 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
76935 / Christoval / TX / 19.8 mi. | 198 | 444 | 44.6 | $38,646 | 12.1 | 10.7 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.1 | |
76951 / Sterling City / TX / 43.1 mi. | 170 | 509 | 33.4 | $35,302 | 31.6 | 31.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
79720 / Big Spring / TX / 81.4 mi. | 170 | 10,850 | 1.6 | $30,531 | 44.1 | 38.2 | 4.0 | 0.4 | 0.6 | |
76875 / Rowena / TX / 30.1 mi. | 152 | 299 | 50.8 | $30,652 | 18.2 | 17.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
78643 / Llano / TX / 119.5 mi. | 140 | 2,514 | 5.6 | $35,833 | 8.3 | 6.5 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.2 | |
76934 / Carlsbad / TX / 18.8 mi. | 126 | 399 | 31.6 | $28,214 | 20.8 | 14.0 | 4.3 | 0.6 | 0.2 | |
79567 / Winters / TX / 46.9 mi. | 115 | 1,499 | 7.7 | $28,346 | 34.5 | 31.1 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 0.4 | |
79843 / Marfa / TX / 245.3 mi. | 109 | 1,079 | 10.1 | $24,593 | 70.5 | 69.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
76801 / Brownwood / TX / 86 mi. | 104 | 9,667 | 1.1 | $29,143 | 25.6 | 18.6 | 5.2 | 0.4 | 0.4 | |
79701 / Midland / TX / 90.4 mi. | 91 | 8,543 | 1.1 | $27,369 | 63.5 | 50.2 | 11.9 | 0.4 | 0.3 | |
79848 / Sanderson / TX / 147.7 mi. | 86 | 378 | 22.8 | $23,854 | 52.9 | 50.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 0.7 | |
79744 / Iraan / TX / 104.5 mi. | 79 | 518 | 15.3 | $46,250 | 38.6 | 36.8 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.0 | |
78624 / Fredericksburg / TX / 122.1 mi. | 78 | 7,415 | 1.1 | $37,874 | 17.9 | 16.5 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
79739 / Garden City / TX / 69 mi. | 73 | 338 | 21.6 | $36,250 | 35.5 | 32.7 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
79752 / Mc Camey / TX / 104.9 mi. | 70 | 814 | 8.6 | $26,152 | 51.1 | 48.6 | 1.2 | 0.9 | 0.0 | |
79778 / Rankin / TX / 90.2 mi. | 67 | 341 | 19.6 | $38,516 | 30.8 | 26.4 | 2.5 | 1.0 | 0.0 | |
79772 / Pecos / TX / 192.8 mi. | 66 | 3,540 | 1.9 | $24,682 | 75.9 | 73.0 | 2.0 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
76866 / Paint Rock / TX / 32.5 mi. | 65 | 244 | 26.6 | $34,141 | 21.1 | 20.5 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
76844 / Goldthwaite / TX / 109.6 mi. | 62 | 1,427 | 4.3 | $30,355 | 17.7 | 15.6 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
79756 / Monahans / TX / 148.1 mi. | 58 | 3,268 | 1.8 | $30,970 | 46.6 | 41.1 | 4.1 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
79731 / Crane / TX / 122.2 mi. | 53 | 1,292 | 4.1 | $31,375 | 48.8 | 44.8 | 2.9 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
79705 / Midland / TX / 101.9 mi. | 53 | 11,012 | 0.5 | $44,673 | 35.5 | 22.9 | 10.8 | 0.3 | 0.7 | |
79512 / Colorado City / TX / 69.5 mi. | 50 | 2,370 | 2.1 | $25,509 | 45.2 | 30.1 | 13.9 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
79782 / Stanton / TX / 101.9 mi. | 47 | 1,246 | 3.8 | $30,283 | 47.7 | 44.8 | 2.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |
79707 / Midland / TX / 110.7 mi. | 44 | 10,419 | 0.4 | $50,166 | 20.1 | 13.4 | 3.5 | 0.3 | 1.9 | |
76834 / Coleman / TX / 65.7 mi. | 38 | 2,703 | 1.4 | $25,816 | 18.8 | 14.8 | 2.3 | 0.4 | 0.3 | |
76958 / Water Valley / TX / 21 mi. | 36 | 93 | 38.7 | $42,250 | 15.1 | 12.0 | 0.0 | 1.9 | 0.0 | |
76937 / Eola / TX / 22.7 mi. | 29 | 102 | 28.4 | $22,917 | 50.2 | 49.8 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.0 | |
79761 / Odessa / TX / 114.8 mi. | 27 | 10,578 | 0.3 | $29,053 | 57.3 | 46.9 | 8.5 | 0.3 | 0.7 | |
79734 / Fort Davis / TX / 212.2 mi. | 23 | 788 | 2.9 | $31,622 | 35.9 | 33.5 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
76858 / Melvin / TX / 59.3 mi. | 22 | 86 | 25.6 | $17,159 | 22.9 | 21.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | |
79506 / Blackwell / TX / 44.9 mi. | 21 | 377 | 5.6 | $29,537 | 8.9 | 7.2 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 0.0 | |
79842 / Marathon / TX / 182.9 mi. | 21 | 210 | 10.0 | $23,000 | 52.6 | 50.3 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
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